[Bldg-sim] Fwd: SketchUp 2 DAYSIM v.3 Error

[Thomas Bleicher]

Hi all.

I don't see anything attached to this messages so this is a bit speculation:

It is true that Daysim handles spaces in filenames poorly. You should
export to a path that does not contain spaces like "C:\temp\daysim\"
or the "projects" folder in the Daysim installation.

Sketchup also has problems with most characters that are not ASCII
(like accented characters). They should not be used in file paths,
material names, group names etc.

Finally there is a bug in su2rad_daysim_r03 which has appeared
recently, probably only triggered in an updated Sketchup version. If
that happens the export stops during the process and you only get a
*.rif file but no *.rad file which contains the geometry (and
is what you're really interested in). If that is the case please
contact me directly for a patch and further trouble shooting if
necessary.

Regards,
Thomas


On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Alex Krickx
<akrickx at seriousmaterials.com> wrote:
> Hi Nader,
>
> I'm not very familiar with Daysim (only used it once or twice) but I do remember from using Radiance that "spaces" (as in when you hit the spacebar key) are delimiters. In order to make sure that they're not misused underscores must be used (hence the program title "su2rad_daysim_r03", no spaces). I believe this applies to all materials (ext wall should be ext_wall) textures (rough concrete > rough_concrete) etc.
>
> As all the output files for Radiance/Daysim are text based, you should be able to open them in notepad/wordpad and scroll through to ensure that your naming convention is correct.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Kind regards,
> Alex Krickx
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Dr. Nader Chalfoun
> Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 2:41 PM
> To: BldgSim Mailing List; Jimmy Keller; Omar Al-hassawi
> Subject: [Bldg-sim] Fwd: SketchUp 2 DAYSIM v.3 Error
>
> Hi -
>
> We have followed the step-by-step process 'Exporting From SketchUp' as outlined in Section 4.1.1 (pg 32) of the 'DAYSIM 2.1 Tutorial' dated April 27, 2006.  We are using Sketchup v. 7 and DAYSIM v. 3.0 (beta).
>
> We created a simple one-room 20'x20'x10'h model w/ 1 window in SketchUp (no layers).  We then attempted to export the model into a .rif file using the su2rad_daysim_r03 plugin.
>
> We have had trouble loading the .rif file into DAYSIM.  We get an error message (see attachment or below).
>
> Is there an update to the procedure specific to DAYSIM v.3  that we are not aware of?
>
>
> Nader
>
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